When trying to setup the connection mode of the rely binding to ‘Hybrid’ following exception might occur: Invalid configuration. Unable to use transport protection with Hybrid mode. This exception is thrown if you try to setup transport security when using hybrid connection mode. Following configuration...

When trying to install the certificate in Windows Azure Management portal you might experience following exception: The selected certificate is not valid. This exception is thrown when the certified contains exported private key. To workaround this, export certificate without private key. Certificate...

When working with WCF you might get following exception: The HttpGetEnabled property of ServiceMetadataBehavior is set to true and the HttpGetUrl property is a relative address, but there is no http base address. Either supply an http base address or set HttpGetUrl to an absolute address. Note that there...

If you want to connect to Windows Azure machine you will need to do few steps which are described in this post. First connect to you Windows Azure portal, go to get activation token and copy it to clipboard. Then right mouse click on your Windows Azure hosted Service in Visual Studio Solution and following...

Windows Azure Connect is used to configure IPsec protected connections between one or more machines (physical or VMs) in your local network, and Web roles, Worker roles, or VM roles. Connect can be accessed in new Windows Azure Portal (currently BETA): https://windows.azure.com/ If you want to use it...

When you move one database form SQL Server to Windows Azure SQL Server by using of SQL scripts you will run into several issues which are not that obvious. SQL Server in Windows Azure platform does not support full T-SQL. Here are few examples: This is the simple table which I want to move to Windows...

When working with Access Control Service provided by Windows Azure AppFabric there is one “invisible fact”, which you have to b aware of. Following code snippet shows how to request the token by Access Control Service: NameValueCollection values = new NameValueCollection (); values.Add...

Frankfurt am Main – Germany, October 28 – 29, 2010 International Supercomputing Conference 2010 has been hosted this year in Frankfurt am Main - Germany. ISC Cloud'10 is a conference that focuses on massive data processing and large application simulations in the Cloud.This inaugural Cloud program...

When you try to build a dynamic assembly on Windows Azure platform be aware of following behavior. During build process the code provider can create assembly on the disk or to create it in memory. Note that creation on disk (GenerateInMemory=false) will not work. You will get following exception: “ results...

When working with WCF in a bit more complex environment, you might run in following issue. Usually when you want to get metadata of the service you will navigate to service page and following appears: The link shown in the picture above brings you to the WSDL description of the service. Unfortunately...

Microsoft finally released a new CTP of the .NET Services SDK, the March 2009 CTP Personally, I think it is a very noteworthy release since it now allows for the first time to develop full blown applications in the Workflow Services part of it: Now you can activate workflows from an external source,...